Simon Rabinovitch
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A look at China's digital yuan, in which I argue that on the spectrum from grand monetary revolution to big nothing-burger, it's a lot closer to the latter.There are three
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Some good recent research on Chinese data reliability: the basic conclusion is that the government has consistently falsified official GDP since 2012.But it's also a bit more complicated than that.
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The Chinese government doesn't like them, but it's fighting a losing battle: tattoos are only getting more popular. And many are true works of art, enabled by a revolution in
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A long read this week on how Xi is remaking China's economy. Conventional wisdom is that he's reverting to a statist model at the private sector's expense: a sure-fire recipe
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Oh FFS I spent much of the past two months engrossed in Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem trilogy and emerge only to find an eminent Harvard historian mangling one of its
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Meet the anti-bitcoin: China is set to launch the world's first official digital currency, and it is everything that crypto wasn't meant to be. In time it could let government
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